Illegal Immigrants

Twenty-Six Lies About Health Care Reform

FactCheck.org | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics


Our inbox has been overrun with messages asking us to weigh in on a mammoth list of claims about the House health care bill. The chain e-mail purports...

DC or Bust: Lou Dobbs and His Hate Groupies

Karl Frisch | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media


Karl Frisch

If Dobbs won't end his association with FAIR, which the Southern Policy Law Center has designated as a hate group, CNN should do the right thing and end its association with Dobbs.

After Being Ignored By White House, 521 Immigration Groups Join To Protest Obama's Inaction

Dawn Teo | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics


Dawn Teo

A coalition of 521 organizations have signed an open letter to Obama and are planning vigils, marches, and other events across the country to protest the administration's policy on the Department of Homeland Security 287(g) local immigration enforcement program

The Harrowing Journey North with Rebecca Cammisa's Which Way Home

Matthew-Lee Erlbach | Posted 09.24.2009 | World


Matthew-Lee Erlbach

"Many people think that migrants just easily appear at the U.S. border," said Camissa. "But the tough journey begins at the Mexico-Guatemala border."

HuffPost Review: Which Way Home

Elizabeth O'Neill | Posted 09.24.2009 | Entertainment


Elizabeth O'Neill

Children make up roughly five percent of illegal migrants traveling to the United States alone, and the footage Rebecca Camisa's film crew manages to catch is staggering.

Deporting American Citizens: ICE's Mexican-izing of Mark Lyttle

Jacqueline Stevens, Ph.D. | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics


Jacqueline Stevens, Ph.D.

ICE has been deporting over a million people each year. Most are Mexican citizens residing here without legal status. But thousands of those being detained and even deported are US citizens.

Palin Supports Corsi: District 9 Is a Documentary

Warren Holstein | Posted 09.20.2009 | Comedy


Warren Holstein

An indignant Palin immediately released a series of searing Facebook status updates denouncing the impending alien immigrant infestation as "icky" and "un-American,"

GOP Risks Alienating Latinos By Scapegoating Immigrants in Health Care Debate

The Washington Independent | DAPHNE EVIATAR | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics


As a leading immigration restrictionist group today opens a conference highlighting the costs of immigrants to the nation's health care system, critic...

Weekly Immigration Wire: Healthcare and the Undocumented

The Media Consortium | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics


The Media Consortium

Right-Wing pundits are polluting constructive dialogue about health care reform, many times citing immigration as mark against it.

Is Now the Right Time for Immigration Reform? Chuck Schumer, the Sensenbrenner in Liberal's Clothes

Anis Shivani | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics


Anis Shivani

The Schumer mandate for the undocumented to register within a short period of time, or else be permanently barred from becoming U.S. residents, is a prime example of the law run amok.

The Gates Affair: Why We Care

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics


Daniel Bruno Sanz

Inheritance is White, poor credit scores, Black. A missing woman is White and a fugitive on the loose is Black.

White House To Announce Plans For "Truly Civil" Immigrant Detention System

The New York Times | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics


The Obama administration intends to announce an ambitious plan on Thursday to overhaul the much-criticized way the nation detains immigration violator...

Obama Keeps Tough Immigration Policies Despite Promise To Break From Bush

The New York Times | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics


After early pledges by President Obama that he would moderate the Bush administration's tough policy on immigration enforcement, his administration is...

Joe Arpaio Ignores Feds, Won't Stop Arresting Illegal Immigrants

AP | AMANDA LEE MYERS | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics


PHOENIX — The self-proclaimed "toughest sheriff in America" has never gotten so much resistance from the federal government. The Homeland Secur...

The Invisible Face of Immigration

Irasema Garza | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics


Irasema Garza

Women immigrants are facing impossible choices daily: put up with abuse, or sacrifice their only life line to economic security for themselves and their families.

Mexico Drug War: Asylum Seekers Increasingly Turned Away By US Immigration Courts

GlobalPost | Posted 08.15.2009 | World


By Todd Bensman | GlobalPost SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Their stories may be heart-rending. Their experiences may seem unimaginable. Their lives may st...

Illegal People: An Island of Rationality

Hector E. Sanchez | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics


Hector E. Sanchez

The hostility of globalization forces corporate management to compete for the cheapest possible products at the expense of exploited workers.

Greenbacks for Green Cards

Michael Burns | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics


Michael Burns

I believe selling one million green cards to a group of sponsored illegal immigrants for $10,000 apiece over the next few years is a potentially great idea.

Italy Illegal Immigration Crackdown Draws Fire

Huffington Post | Posted 08.15.2009 | World


A new law in Italy seeks to impose harsh penalties on illegal immigrants in a country that has been considered a bastion for safe, illegal refuge in E...

Obama Revives Bush Plan To Seek Out Illegal Workers

The Washington Post | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics


President Obama will abandon a controversial immigration crackdown, sought by his predecessor, to pressure U.S. companies to fire 9 million workers wi...

Mighty Movie Podcast: Amat Escalante on Los Bastardos

Dan Persons | Posted 08.02.2009 | Entertainment


Dan Persons

Los Bastardos is a spare and brutal survey of the suburban wasteland.

Letterman Should Call Himself Letterperson from Now On

Catie Lazarus | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics


Catie Lazarus

Sarah, how creepy is it that NOW is jumping on your bandwagon? Trying to be friends with the alpha popular princess by sweeping abortion, pay parity, stem cell research under the rug!

WATCH: What Ever Happened to the Horrible Scary Illegal Immigrants??

Lee Camp | Posted 07.09.2009 | Comedy


Lee Camp

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Haitian Boat Capsizing Kills 9; 16 Rescued

AP | JENNIFER KAY | Posted 06.14.2009 | World


MIAMI — Searchers racing to find more survivors from an overloaded boat that sank off Florida expanded their target area farther north over the ...

Swine Flu Stirs Hate

Teresa Puente | Posted 05.30.2009 | World


Teresa Puente

Networks need to put the actual numbers into perspective -- swine flu vs. regular flu. So far you're more likely to die from the regular flu.